>In the absence of some quoted authority on that point, I have to say that >sounds deeply, deeply unlikely.

I wouldn't be too sure about that. It looks like OTS is resorting more
and more to the 'cover ur ass' tactics that are so familiar from other
vendors.
Are you sure all OTS personell knows how to
- edit a tnsnames.ora file?
- create a database manually, without using the dbca?